Android Studio - illegal symbol error 8204

Question

For some reason, after recovering my project, I get an illegal character error, but nothing inside my code is underlined in red. Can someone please tell me what is wrong and how to solve it?

Mistake

illegal character: \8204 

WCBankActivity.java

 import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction; import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity; public class WCBankActivity extends ActionBarActivity { public final static String EXTRA_MESSAGE = "Station_key"; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.fragment_wc_bank); if (savedInstanceState == null) { Intent intent = getIntent(); String station = intent.getStringExtra(WCBankActivity.EXTRA_MESSAGE); FragmentWCBank newFragment = new FragmentWCBank(); FragmentTransaction transaction = this.getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();‌ transaction.replace(R.id.detail_container, newFragment); transaction.commit(); } } } 

Answer 1

Try changing the encoding, see image:

Answer 2

This is a problem with the BOM (Byte Order Mark) type. Eclipse does not allow this character.

 Just copy paste the same content to a Notepad++ editor, it shows the "LS" with black background. Have deleted the "LS" content and have copy the same content from notepad++ to java file, it works fine.